Aaron Friedberg on Trump, Harris, and a Dangerous World

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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We face an ever more dangerous geopolitical environment. In this Conversation, Princeton professor and AEI nonresident senior fellow Aaron Friedberg analyzes America’s foreign policy challenges and considers how a Harris or Trump administration might approach the threats we face. According to Friedberg, the cooperation among Russia, China, Iran, North Korea “has grown more and more sophisticated and complex” in recent times, making the challenges in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia more difficult to address—as well as more interrelated. Friedberg argues that the volatility in American domestic politics makes predicting the American approach to countering these threats increasingly uncertain. As he puts it, “If Trump comes back, the range of possible policies in each of these areas is just much wider than would have been typically the case in the past”—and a key question with Harris is "To what extent does she share [Biden’s] gut instinct regarding American leadership?"

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0:00.0	And the Hi, welcome back to conversations. I'm Bill Crystal. Very pleased to be
0:19.2	joined today once again by Aaron Friedman, Professor of Politics at Princeton, a non-resident fellow at the
0:26.4	American Enterprise Institute, a leading scholar of international relations in general,
0:31.5	and China policy in particular most recent
0:34.2	book I think is getting China wrong that's about Aaron's colleagues not about
0:38.7	Aaron himself got it right I believe that's the subtitle of the book you know and he did get it right actually
0:44.4	and and we had a conversation or two maybe on China very much worth going back to
0:50.3	the most recent conversation was at the very beginning of this year on China, mostly as
0:56.3	well as the world in general, but I thought today we could talk about what are we at? It's Monday,
1:01.1	September 30th, after a very busy weekend in the Middle East and the usual
1:07.0	busyness elsewhere in the world. I thought we could talk about the general world situation.
1:10.5	It's implications for our election campaign.
1:13.0	Election days five weeks away.
1:15.0	And I really try to help people think about this moment in
1:19.0	international affairs, but also our own political history.
1:22.0	So Aaron, thank you for joining me.
1:24.1	Thank you very much, Bill. So I maybe let's begin with a, I want to get to obviously
1:29.3	to the choice we face, the different foreign policy options, facing the American public and their
1:34.3	implications, but maybe just begin with the world and do a quick lightning route as it were of a general
1:41.8	sense of things.
1:43.0	Things, you know, things have,
1:46.0	I don't, doesn't seem like things have calmed down a lot
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